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Recently published research articles

21/08/2019 Duygu Candarli Leave a comment

Hello, everyone! I would like to share my recently published research articles with you: Candarli, D., & Jones, S. (2019). Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education. Corpora, 14(2), 237–263. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2019.0170 Candarli, D. (2018). Changes in L2 writers’ self-reported metalinguistic knowledge of lexical phrases over one academic year. The Language Learning Journal, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1520914 The abstracts are publicly […]

The value of painful review

25/04/2017 Zhuomin Huang Leave a comment

The value of painful review April 24, 2017 | Filed under: How is it possible to write? Following the theme that something can be made of everything. My co-author and I have just finished revising another article. As is often the case when trying to break new ground, one of the reviews is negative. “What is the point of this […]

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50% OFF: A New Book on Education for Intercultural Citizenship

02/11/2016 Zhuomin Huang Leave a comment

A new book ‘From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship‘ developed by language teacher-researchers from the CULTNET network (Durham University, UK) is out and under 50% discount (see the flyer by clicking) before 31st January, 2017. The contributors to this volume have collaborated to present their work on introducing competences in intercultural communication and citizenship into foreign language education. The […]

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Researching Across Languages and Cultures: A guide to doing research interculturally

29/10/2016 Zhuomin Huang Leave a comment

This new book offers a useful guide for academic researchers, doctoral students, research supervisors and Masters students who carry out empirical research in multilingual or multicultural contexts and/or are writing about their research for a diverse readership across the world. Researchers who come from and work in monolingual societies often forget that their context is unusual – most of the […]

Latest volume of English Language Teacher Education & Development (ELTED) Journal now published

14/07/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This is an open access journal available here and contains the following articles: Articles Reflexive themes in context: a case study in Japan – Hugh Scott Smith & Alexey Kukharuk Task-based learning in language teacher education – Bill Littlewood Why practice makes perfect sense: the past, the present and potential future of the PPP paradigm in language teacher education – Jason Anderson Special educational needs […]

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New book – Interculturality in Education: A Theoretical and Methodological Toolbox

27/06/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that it is now time to move beyond certain assumptions towards a richer and more realistic understanding of the ‘intercultural’. Many concepts such as culture, identity and intercultural competence are discussed and revised. Myths about interculturality are also unpacked and dispelled. Written by […]

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New volume of English Language Teacher Education and Development now available

18/12/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

The latest volume of English Language Teacher Education and Development Journal(Volume 18) is now freely available on-line. This volume contains the following articles: Developing teacher language awareness via in-service training: trainers’ beliefs – Daniel Xerri Becoming a better teacher in the writing class: a case study of a writing tutor in a university in China – Fu Bei Transnational English language teaching: opportunities for teacher learning and […]

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STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND

16/12/2015 Zhuomin Huang One comment

This book is a collection of Gregory Bateson’s short works. It ‘propose a new way of thinking about ideas and about those aggregates of ideas which I call “minds.” This way of thinking I call the “ecology of mind,” or the ecology of ideas. It is a science which does not yet exist as an organized body of theory or knowledge‘…